The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

For the next five years he faced a series of English rebellions in various parts of the country and a half-hearted Danish invasion, but he was able to subdue all resistance and establish an enduring regime.

Globalist historians ( who believe Hitler had a master plan for conquering the world ) such as Andreas Hillgruber, Klaus Hildebrand and Gerhard Weinberg have argued that Hitler was never seriously interested in the " Mediterranean plan ", that his main priority was always the invasion of the Soviet Union, for which he ordered planning to start in July 1940, and that Hitler's interest in the " Mediterranean strategy " in late 1940 was only half-hearted at best.

Lean was a half-hearted schoolboy with a dreamy nature who was labeled a " dud " of a student ; he left in his mid-teens and entered his father's chartered accountancy firm as an apprentice.

The outrage was caused not only by the picture, but by the first brief retraction-described by Honest Reporting as " half-hearted "-which failed to identify Grossman as a Jew, and completely left out the part about his beating at the hands of an Arab mob.

This same preoccupation with missiles at the expense of aircraft has resulted in our half-hearted effort to develop nuclear propulsion for aircraft.

and although we have attempted to provide these status symbols, support of the ' dual-ladder ' plan has been half-hearted despite the creation of a salary potential for a research scientist commensurate with that of men in top managerial positions.

He was accused by many in the CDU / CSU of offering " half-hearted " support to Angela Merkel, with some even accusing him of being reluctant to support a female candidate from the East.

George protested against such half-measures and showed his dissatisfaction with the half-hearted resolutions of the state assembly of October 1526.

Fund-raising for the crusade was more successful than the half-hearted attempts to storm Smyrna, with little to show in return.

Shortly after the rise of Yuan, the parliament's authority became nominal ; violations of the Constitution by Yuan were met with half-hearted motions of censure, and Kuomintang members of the parliament that gave up their membership to the KMT were offered 1, 000 pounds.

Most episodes end with Arkwright standing at night outside the shop prior to closing while reflecting on the events of the day ( via a Barker voiceover ) and often ending with a half-hearted, comedic request to God.

In December, a half-hearted " audition " for The Rolling Stones took place, Beck jamming blues with the band for one day, their incompatibility obvious to all with the guitarist position vacated by Mick Taylor eventually going to ex-Jeff Beck Group bassist Ronnie Wood.

The French artillery justified its reputation as the best in Europe, and eventually, with no more than a half-hearted infantry attack, the duke broke off the action and retired.

) consisted of a half-hearted compromise between a friendly wave and salute with a straight raised arm.

The fears instilled by the press of a Labour Party in secret Communist manoeuvres, together with the half-hearted " respectable " policies pursued by MacDonald, led to Labour losing the October 1924 general election.

Additionally, from 1940 until 1981, the station made half-hearted attempts to launch FM service, at various points operating FM service on 100. 7 ( now occupied by WZLX, a current sister to WBZ ), 92. 9 ( now occupied by the aforementioned WBOS, owned by Greater Media ) and 106. 7 ( now WMJX, also owned by Greater Media ); these stations were either closed down or sold to other chains, with the WBZ-FM call letters eventually being reused in 2009 on a co-owned sports radio station at 98. 5.

In 1981, California put out a half-hearted version of the album, featuring only part of the original album ( and what was there featured overdubbing done after the fact ) with the addition of a few unrelated songs that were recorded in the late 1970s.

Unlike most magazines, it eschewed the traditional, half-hearted splash page with pictures of video game characters.

His vehement opposition to all half-hearted measures brought him frequently into conflict with his superiors, but contributed materially to the unusual energy displayed by the Austrian armies in 1742 and 1743.

His half-hearted attempts at suicide, however, always fail, with comedic consequences.

The dissatisfaction expressed by Cromwell and other Parliamentarians over the failure to trap Charles after the battle and the subsequent half-hearted operations, eventually resulted in the passing of the Self-denying Ordinance, which deprived Essex, Waller and Manchester of their commands, and the formation of the New Model Army, with which Parliament gained victory the next year.

Fittipaldi made half-hearted attempts to outbrake the Tyrrell, but, with Regazzoni out of the picture, he knew that if he could stay close, the Championship would be his.

Exiled and with only a half-hearted promise of help from Henry II of England, after much wandering in Wales, England and France, he returned to Ireland with a group of penniless and down-on-their-luck Norman, Flemish and Welsh allies to help him regain his kingdom.

Along with Calvinist evangelist George Whitefield, Edwards preached that God is " in the now " and that there must be an " urgent call for languid will ," in response to the half-hearted will that the Half-Way Covenant allows.

... despite the requisite quota of scales and shakes in such half-hearted virtuoso vehicles as the Salisbury Galliard, one is never quite able to counter the impression of music of supreme beauty that lacks its ideal means of reproduction.

This indifferent attitude of Amsterdam was the main cause of the slow, half-hearted policy, which would eventually lead to losing the colony.

A half-hearted attempt was made to complete the temple during Augustus ' reign as the first Roman emperor, but it was not until the accession of Hadrian in the 2nd century AD that the project was finally completed around 638 years after it had begun.

Hirsch was seconded by various Orthodox rabbis, such as Ezriel Hildesheimer, Solomon Klein of Colmar, and B. H. Auerbach, while some of Frankel's supporters, like Salomon Juda Rappoport, were half-hearted.

This was Lena and Byron, who were conducting a half-hearted search for Brown, and they are eventually dropped off in Tennessee.

In the last days before the outbreak of war, once it became clear that, should war break out, British involvement was inevitable, he appeared to have some second thoughts, and he took half-hearted measures to prevent an all out war, until Russia's mobilization on 31 July 1914, took the matter out of his hands.

He was enticed back into the studio by the band's manager, Steve Sesnick, " in a half-hearted attempt to reunite old comrades ", as Cale put it.

However, the half-hearted offensive was halted after France seized the Warndt Forest, of heavily-mined German territory.

As the war proceeded, it was clear that Essex and Manchester were at best half-hearted in pursuing the fight against the royalists, an attitude that became ever more apparent as the struggle became more radical.

The exclusion of Indians from the Simon Commission examining the country's readiness for self-government provoked serious violence, and Irwin was forced into concessions which were poorly received — in London as excessive, and in India as half-hearted.

" Robinson's last year at the Treasury was overshadowed by a run on the banks, caused by the collapse of the City of London bankers Pole Thornton and Co. Robinson was not blamed for the collapse, but his measures to mitigate the crisis were widely seen as half-hearted.

62 ( 1824 ) Antonin Dvořák attempted a half-hearted revival, using the instrument in his Czech Suite ( 1879 ), in which he specifies that an English horn ( cor anglais ) may be used instead, but the instrument was largely abandoned until Richard Strauss took it up once more in his operas Elektra ( 1909 ), Der Rosenkavalier, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Daphne, Die Liebe der Danae, and Capriccio, and several later works, including two wind serenades ( Happy Workshop and Invalid's Workshop ).

The response to the call on the part of the workers was, however, half-hearted and partial, though in certain localities, including Marseille, the strike was almost universal.

Writing for Allmusic, critic Vincent Jeffries wrote of the album " This collection of nostalgia, decent balladry, and quirky anthems probably reinforced any notions of Joe Walsh's creative decline ... this reflective, sometimes half-hearted effort bellies a weariness that's both sad and difficult to appreciate as this master goes through the motions.

" Adam Rayner of Obsessed with Film wrote that, even though the episode " has a few laughs ," it " just feels half-hearted ," and, writing for 411Mania, Ron Martin described the episode as being " just a lazy way out for the writers.

Although his reaction to this was initially an attitude of half-hearted rejection, Shaggy soon discovered that he liked her too.